If you are good, life is good.
The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury.
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Sir, I have no objection to a man’s drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
